The Cookie Monster Has Been Lying All Along…
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5 Facts About Cookies You Probably Didn’t Know!
- The U.S. leads the world as the biggest cookie bakers and eaters, spending more than $550 million annually on Oreos alone…..ok, you probably knew this one!
- You will eat about 35,000 cookies in your lifetime…..personally we think that we eat more than that!
- The first fortune cookie was made in America – the tradition of a fortune with your cookie is Japanese even though most people associate fortune cookies with the Chinese tradition.
- Cookies were first made in Persia in 7 A.D. – they were more like cookie cakes than the cookies we know today.
- The story goes that Chocolate Chip were accidentally created by Ruth Wakefield in 1933. Baking cookies one day, Ruth realized she was all out of nuts but she found some chocolate lying around and gave it a shot!